Sermons Ordinary Faith

The church of the future will learn to love and transform their community through serving, investing, influence, prayer, declaration, and patience.

The church of the future will learn to love and transform their community through serving, investing, influence, prayer, declaration, and patience.

Today we are talking about being a part of something, but what is that “something”. Is it an organization, or a business? Or, is it a family and a community? What do you think God has in mind for His children?

The Bible is critically important to a believer's faith and life. Your relationship with and use of the Bible will produce real growth and humility. It will keep Jesus as the focus of the Bible. While guiding you into connection with God.

The Passover story is the story of Israel’s independence day, the day the Lord saved them from oppression and made them into new people under God. Passover is the story that informs the identity of the Jewish people. What story is shaping your identity?

You have likely heard that you and all of mankind have a “SIN Problem”. What does that even mean? Does it mean that you are predisposed to evil? What kind of problems does it present? And, Is there a real solution to it?

Your relationship with God begins at “Dearly Love and Greatly Enjoyed”. Sure, it’s really hard to believe. But, it is true.

Life in the Kingdom of God is life the way it was meant to be lived. That Kingdom life includes everything from the big things like not murdering people to the everyday task of brushing your teeth in the morning. Ordinary everyday life in God's Kingdom is the path to righteousness and transformation and you can participate in it right now.

You are a spiritual being living in an earthly reality. You are seated in Heaven, while walking this earth. Understanding this begins a journey into the authority that inhabits you. That authority is where personal and community transformation are launched.

Will we trust God or will we make our own way? The choice to trust is the way of faith. It leads us from fear and anxiety into peace, joy, and success.

Be weird! Be powerful in prayer! People who enjoy and employ prayer have learned that God is amazingly good and WANTS to do wonderful things for us and others.

Jesus introduced an idea that will rock your world. It will change your thinking and transform your life. Everything awesome, powerful, and spiritual launches from something Jesus called Metanoia!

The night before Jesus was executed He spent the Passover celebration trying to console His disciples. He told them that He would be leaving but He would send a Comforter. This Counselor would teach them and empower them to testify about Jesus. After His ascension, the Holy Spirit showed up and landed on the disciples. In the miraculous aftermath, people hearing each other in their native language and Peter’s powerful sermon, over 3,000 people were baptised into God’s Kingdom. The Holy Spirit has been powerfully equipping His people to witness about Jesus ever since.

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The Cross of Jesus Christ is the second most staggering event in history and eternity. What really happened? How does this beautiful tragedy change everything?

What is the value of a person? What is your value? It isn’t a number on a screen. Your value is not defined by your failures or successes. Your value is determined by Jesus. He is the only one who truly defines you. Neither your opinion nor that of others has any bearing on who you are or what you are worth.

When you discover things in the Bible that give you doubts, that just means it’s time to dig. Jesus deals firmly with the matter of forgiveness in Matthew 18. If we wear a lens of God that is punitive in nature, we will miss the entire point of Jesus' parable.

Peter asks Jesus about what kind of reward he will receive for leaving everything behind to follow Him. So, Jesus jumps into a story about a Landowner so generous and fair that his workers became resentful. Jesus summarizes His message in the challenging statement “the first will become last and the last become first,” calling us to live into the Kingdom of God’s radical rejection of status.

Our anxiety, drama, and control issues are rooted in unbelief. Our Father God is truly good, and Jesus is the absolute best standard to evaluate our lives and faith. Jesus is the best and only argument against unbelief. He is your solution. He is real life.

What is the Father worth to you? What are you worth to Him? Make sure your opinion of Him and of yourself is formed by His relationship and history with you. Don’t allow the opinions of others or the assault of your enemy to shape those opinions. You can trust Him.